Rachel Meginnes Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1977 -

Rachel Meginnes is an artist and educator committed to the idea that art creates more fulfilling lives. Rachel received her BA in Art at Earlham College in 1999 and her MFA in Fibers at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2005. In between, she spent two years studying traditional Japanese textile processes in Morioka, Japan. From 2005 – 2011, she co-owned and operated an international rug company based out of Sikkim, India and Seattle, WA. In 2012, Rachel was awarded a three-year residency at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina which began her shift to making artwork full-time.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in Thailand and Hong Kong and can be found in the collections of the United States Art in Embassies Program in Amman, Jordan; the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC; the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; and Fidelity Bank, in Raleigh, NC.

Rachel has taught all ages from underserved youth in after school programs to incarcerated men in prison to college-aged students and adults in the midst of choosing and changing their careers. Her workshops have been offered at craft schools and colleges across the United States and in Canada. Recently, Rachel developed an arts educational partnership between Earlham College and Penland School of Craft to promote craft education within the context of academic art. Rachel lives and works in Western North Carolina and just received a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship in Craft.